Steam-separator.



P atented Sept. :26, I899.

W. 0. JENNINGS.

STEAM SEPARATOB.

(Application and 1m. 17, 1898 (No Model.)

5 clfenn 31 AZ 0W J C I I Hi3 Q'L'torne y .1 me STATES P TENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM 0. JENNINGS, OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY. ASSIGNOR TO THE \VAT- SON & MCDANIEL COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

STEAM-SEPARATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters'Patent No. 633,? 60, dated September 26, 1899.

Application filed December 17, 1898. Serial No. 699,538. (No modeLl To all whom, it nuty concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM C. JENNINGS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Camden, in the county of Camden and State 5 of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Down-Current Vertical Separators; and I do. declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable .others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

rate steam or other gaseous fluids from the liquid they may have absorbed or become saturated with while being generated and from after condensation. The act of ebulli- -tion, as in raising steam, resultsin a certain amount of absorption of the liquid by the vapor, and condensation returns the fluid to its former liquid state, and unless freed from suchliquid the efliciency of the vapor or fluid is impaired and damage follows the introduction of the liquid into the mechanism operated or actuated by the fluid.

To accomplish the desired object of my invention, I have constructed a separator in manner to be interposed between the source of product and use of the fluid, as between a steam-boiler and a steam-engine, and change the direction of the fluid flowing in a space within the separator, wherein it may expand and release the suspended or saturating liquid by precipitation, and the reversing of the current hold it in a receptacle where it may in proper time be removed, while allowing the anhydrous fluid to arise and freely flow to its operative mechanism. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is an edge elevation. Fig. 3 is a vertical central section on line a; as, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a vertical central section on line i: c, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a top view.

Similar figures of reference indicate similar parts throughout the views.

In Figs. 1 and 2 I have shown my sepa My invention relates to mechanism to sepa-.

rator attached directly to the steam-chest of a steam-engine 1 by tap-bolts 2 through flange 3, which in this method forms a supporting-base.- Upwardly from flange 3 is a vertical pipe 4, passing within the separatorwalls 5 5 6 6, and at its upper end closed, but lower down'bifurcated, and terminating in side openings 7 within the separator and toward walls 5 5 and near the upper part of the separator interior 8. The walls 5 5 6 6 are attached to pipe-4 some distance above flange 3, walls 5 5-being circular in form and above pipe 4 terminating in a receiving-pipe 9, surmounted by a flange 10, to which is connected flange 11 of pipe 12, which is a portion of the connection from the steam-boiler. or other fluid-generator to the separator. WValls 6 6 are attached to delivery-pipe lv at the same height as walls 5 5 and terminate at the same height on pipe 9, which is formed 70 above walls 5 5 6 o. The walls 5 5 6 6 are shaped and conjoined to'each other toform a.body-case for the separator, flattened to an elliptical shape as viewed from the top and edge, and circular as viewed from the side, making a form occupying a minimum of space, presenting a large surface for the expansion of the entering fluid, a direct course for the fluid in its exit, and no abrupt or tortuous passages to prevent free flowing or the obstruction of the fluid.

Across the separator-body, at its upper interior part, are vertical walls or partitions 13, placed at right angles to openings 7, connected at their ends to walls 6, at their top to walls 5, and extending outward and downward from openings 7 and forming between them passage-ways let from inlet-pipe 9 over top 15 of pipe 4 toward the insides of walls 6, thus preventing and; directing the incomingo. fluid to the enlarged and flattened surface provided for its expansion and the release of its suspended orabsorbed liquid following the direction of the full-line arrows. Thereafter the fluid rises, following-the course indicated by the broken-line arrows through openings 7 into delivery-pipe 4, and thence to ultimate destination exterior to the separator.

To prevent any of the liquid deposit from being forced or drawn up by the fluid and mo "sections whieh jane'. elongated .elliptically; an.

oarriedalong in its outward passage,-I- have 'et'mstructed-led'ges or dams 16,-projecting int-o body-S: from-walls 5 and connected to walls 6 to intercept snoh flow.

. 'WIalls 6 and. pipe are connected by st-ays- 17 .to insure stability and more firmly unite the parts, asithe construction shown. in. the

illustrations such as I employwlien'making the separator of cast metals and of integral parts; but it will feadilybe n-nderstood that insome instances andfor some sizes'it may b'eadva'ntageous o -desmmete construotgthe separator of separable parts united in other well-known. manners of Gonstgu'otiou, and such means Iflconsider within my invention receptacle;

' liable to'pa s'sintopipeet, and the time to empty the reservo'iror I 1 l. .A'separatoir having a hody-eirenlaq'in form at its upper and;-lower' 'ends and-cross inlet5pipe. above the" body, an outlet pipe. partially Withil1*= and partially without .t-he

body, the outer part "having. .a'jjflange fo'rming a ihase 'whereonl to rest the separator; and

' the inner part passing'within-the.body -to near its top', the .top of the pipe .bei ng-closed',;

and bifurcated; with openings in the bifurcations, and wnllssn'rronndin'gthe hifuroationopening's; also attached to the ease,- and.t fo rm-p i-ngguidedjways from the inlet-pipemoutli' over. the ontlet pipe-end and down itssides toward the lower inner part .of -the body,, in

manner and formesnbstantially .as set' forth.

2.1A separator, the-body of which is circle lar in form viewed from :th'e-sideelevation I and'elliptical'in its vertical and cross sec'-' tions,'-.a'n inlet-pipe at the top-of the'case, anoutletpip'e extending within the'oase. to near its top' and having oppositelyvfaced openingsbelow its closed 'to'p,-partitions surrounding the open'ingsf andfextending outwardl-yand I downwardly thereftbm and connected atthei'r top and: ends to the oase,- forining passage.--. ways, from the inlet-pi e, over-and down the; o utletepipe-and directe toward-the flattened or elliptic walls of the separator-case, and he-- low'the partitions surrouhdihgjhe outletpipe openings, substantially asset, forth.

3. In aseparator a-oircnl-ar chamher elliptically formed as to its vertical and cross sec- 'tions an, inlet-pipe at its npper' part, an ont i let-pipe at its lower part-which'thereafter.ex-

tends upwardly within the case; halving multi pleopenings into the case but cl'osedatits top, partition-s: joined tothe ease, is'urronnm .ing the ontletpipe openings, and formingpa'ssage-ways from the inlet-pipe to'the interior of 'theoase', oyertheupper' end of the ontlet pipe and-for a distance down its sides and' below its openings, and ledges or dams within .the case and attached theretofat .theinend's and one edge, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. -A separatorhaizinga circular hody part.- as viewed from the side, but elliptically elo'ngatedin its erticalandhorizontal cross-sec; -tions,-a.n-iinlet-pipe thereto enteringthe body.

part and at't he mouth of said inlet-pipe,'and

joined to the body pm; partitions or vertical walls joined alsoto the upper closed endofan ontlet pipe having side openings commnnicat ingwith the upper circular part of the case,- and alsosnrroundingthese side openings, and v therebyjforming guided courses to cansethe incoming-vapor to pass-over the end and outlet-pipe communieatin g withlthe ex't from i the separatonsubstantially as described;

= In testimony whereof laflix in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM 0. JENNINGS.

my signat'nre Wit-nesses:

LEWIs H. -REDNER, R. C. l/VRIGHT.

down the sides of the outlet-pipe and against the elongated and flattened sides of the case before' heing'admitted tothe openings in the 'ecicn in Letters Patent N0.-633,760;

f It -is hereby certified that in Letters Patent 0. 663,760, granted September 26, 1 upon applicaticfi cf'WiIHQ-m G. Jefiningqof Gamd em New Jersey, for a'fir'impn mehhinffSteam sepzyfatcre, an .errcr -appears in the printed: specificaticn reqm'J correction,.as fellows In 1ine' 90,.pagc-1;fthe wordprevehting should read'presenp i ahd jthat thesaid LetberePatent sho uld he read with this correction therein that same may" conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oflice.

Signed, countersigned, and-sealed this 10th dayof October, A} 11,1899. [SEW] WEBSTER. IDAVIS, .v Assistant Secretary qfithell'nteria Countersign'cd: DUEL-L, C'mmm'ssioneq' of Pate flis. 

